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November 7, 1952
Augustana College, SIOUX FALLS, S. D
VOL. XXXIV — NO. 8
AUGUSTANA MIRROR
Religious Emphasis. Days Begin Monday;
Rand, Norstad To Conduct Daily Services
Mothers of Augie Co-eds to Visit
College Campus November 8 - 10
"Mq.ther is a freshman" could be the theme for this weekend when
the mothers of Augie co-eds are three day guests on the campus.
Tomorrow, November 8, to Monday, November 10, will be filled
with mother and daughter events. This weekend affair is under the
sponsorship of the Chi Epsilon society, the newly-organized women's
honorary society.
First on the agenda. is the ban-quet
for tomorrow night at 6 p.m.
in the science lounge. The banquet
theme and decorations will be
centered on Thanksgiving. Kirs-tine
Stjernholm will be mistress
of ceremonies. The dinner pro-gram
will include various intro-ductions,
recognitions and group
songs.
After the banquet dinner, which
is to be served by the Cottage,
will be a program in the Little
Theater. Mrs. L. M. Stavig will
speak and show movie slides on
her rummer trip to Hanover, Ger-many.
Piano selections • will be
played by MarJean Johnson.
Irene Brandenburg is in charge
of the arrangements for the ban;
quet. On the decoration committee
are Marjorie Swanson and Ardis
Eide. Marlene Fodness and Carol
Refsell comprise the committee
for making the banquet programs.
The mothers and daughters will
attend church services together
Sunday morning. In the afternoon
everyone is invited to the Adelphic
silver anniversary tea held in the
lounge of Tuve 'hall from 3 to 5.
In the evening, the Augie girls
and their mothers will attend the
LSA program which will open , the
religious emphasis program. Pro-fessor
Sidney Rand, president of
Waldolf college, is to be the LSA
speaker.
Monday the mothers will get a
taste of campus life by attending
classes and college activities. The
agenda will also comprise chapel,
shopping and leisure moments for
the -.mothers and daughters. The
special speaker for the morning
chapel program will be Frederic
Norstad.
In the evening the guests are
invited to attend the religious em-phasis
program at the Augustana
auditorium with Professor Rand
as speaker. Following this the
women will have a coffe hour.
Monday evening devotions will
conclude t he mother-daughter
weekend.
LSA at Augustana
Prepares for Nov,V
Region Meeting
Reverend Emil E. Erpestad, pro-fessor
of Christianity, is the Bible
Study leader for the North Central
Region LSA conference it was an-nounced
last week.
Other speakers invited to ad-dress
the annual meet, this year
being held at Augustana, are Dr.
Joseph Knutson, president of
Concordia college, and Dr. Howard
Hong, professor of philosophy at
St. Olaf college.
Augpsta.na plays host to the
LSA regional next weekend, No-vember
21-23, according to Dave
Kverness, Regional vice president
and Marlow Engberg, local LSA
president who are in charge of
local preparation.
Bible study leaders and dele-gates
to represent the Augustana.
LSA will be selected this week.
All students and faculty members
are invited to attend as many of
the sessions as possible. Students
who register for the whale con-vention
will be excused from
classes to attend the meetings. .
LDR Holds Supper
At Pearson Home
Miss Arna Njaa, executive di-rector
of the National LDR spoke
on her trip to Europe at the LDR
supper meeting in the Walter
Pearson home, October 30.
Slides of the European countries
she visited last summer highlight-ed
her talk.
Leading devotions was Roe Nell
Jacobson. Elaine Larson sang and
was accompanied by JoAnn Wy-man.
The serving committee included
Delores Anderson, Arvilla Clem-metson,
Beverly Gross and Bev-erly
Tuntland.
Every Augie should tune in at 7
p.m. next Monday to KAUR, 620 on
the radio dial to hear the first
broadcast of the year of Augie's
own radio station.
Awaiting the arrival of a new
crystal delayed the opening of the
broadcasting station until now.
The frequency has been changed
from 690 to 620 with the install-ation
of the new equipment.
Jim Wylie, station manager, em-phasized
the need for students who
are interested in radio work. It
is an opportunity for many to get
valuable, behind the scenes exper-ience
in this field. "This field is
wide open to everyone and we are
hoping to see many who are inter-ested,
in there pitching," stated
Wylie.
KAUR is on a pending member-ship
list for the Inter Collegiate
Broadcasting system. The IBS
sends programs of interest to be
used by their member stations.
The main emphasis this year is
on coverage of campus news and
a public service to students. Na-tional
news will not be featured
until KAUR acquires its own tele-type
machine.
Programing will be from 7 p.m.
to 11 p.m., the programs varying
according to days with a few ex-cerptions.
There will be two half
hour disc shows each evening and
a special chow of interest to chil-dren,
featuring girls reading kid-dies'
stories.
A favorite from last year,
Moments with the Masters, a full
hour program, will be presented
late in the evening to make it
possible for more students to hear
it. 'The KAUR Bulletin Board will
appear twice on the evening sched-ule,
announcing school events.
Live broadcasting, featuring
members of the student body, will
be a prominent item. Programs
will be given by the college trio,
quartette and other ensembles.
Dale Hatch will conduct sports
interviews with past and present
Augustana athletes. Who's Who
on Angie Campus will be a senior
interview show.
Two outstanding church leaders
will be on campus next week to
lead a series of programs and dis-cussions
during Religious Emph-asis
days in the personages of
Dr. Sidney A. Rand, president of
Waldorf college and Reverend
Frederic M. Norstad, Director of
the Chaplaincy Service of Lutheran
Welfare.
They will alternately address the
student body at chapel programs
and special evening sessions be-ginning
with LSA Sunday evening
and continuing through Wednes-day
evening.
All other school functions have
been cancelled, faculty members
have been instructed to lighten
assignments, and many other ar-rangements
have been made so
that the students at Augustana
may obtain as much benefit as
possible from this series of im-portant
sessions which have been
prepared for them. Everyone is
urged to attend as many sessions
-as possible.
Dr. L. M. Stavig will be in
Charge of the regular chapel pro-grams
at which the speakers will
appear, and Dave Kvernes, religion
board chairman, will preside over
the evening sessions. Special music
will be provided at each program
and the evening sessions will also
feature a hymn sing led by various
student musicians including Joan
Now that Rush week is well
underway, the freshmen are in a
whirl of parties.
November 11 the Phi Rho Beta
Transcribed remotes of students
voice and instrumental recitals
will be carried on KAUR.
The record library has been
brought up to date with the pur-chase
of 200 to 250 new releases,
especially popular recordings.
Miss Clara Chilson, speech in-structor,
has auditioned six an-nouncers,
but there is still a need
for about six more. Anyone inter-ested
in these positions may con-tact
Jim Wylie. Jim spends most
of his spare time in KAUR's head-quarters
in the greenhouse on the
south side of the Administration'
building.
A schedule of the programs will
appear weekly in the MIRROR.
Dr. Sidney Rand
Rev. Frederic Norstad
Chilson, Peggy Miller and Les
Arneson. Dorothy Winclh will be
the accompanist.
will have an open party in the
Science lounge at 8:15. The Nue-roniams
will meet in the Huddle
Banquet room at 8:15 on the same
date.
"The Wheel Dial", a roller skat-ing
party sponsored by the Alpha
Sigma Chi and kappa Theta Phi
will be held November 13 at the
West Sioux rink. Busses will leave
from Tuve hall at 7:30. In the
Huddle, November 17 at 7:30' will
be "Men's Smoker" sponsored by
the Kapps's and in the Science
lounge the Alphas will meet at
7:30 the same date.
Glad Heaven will be the place
the Gladstonians open party will
meet on November 14 at 7:30.
In the Huddle Banquet room
November 12, at 7:30 the Delta
Sigma Tau will meet for their
final separate meeting. The joint
meeting of the Athenians and Dells
will be in the Science lounge at
7:30 on November 19. Also, the
Athenians will have an open meet-ing
on NoVember 14 at the same
time and place.
Philomathians and Webeterians
joint party will be held in the
Science lounge at 8:30 on Novem-ber
18.
egin Religious
Emphasis Sunday
The LSA meeting Sunday eve-ning,
November 9, will be the kick-off
for 'Religious Emphasis Days
with Reverend Sidney Rand as
speaker.
Daryl Bjerke's team is planning
the program which will start at
6:15.
Supper will be served by Les
Arneson'►s team at 5:30.
Dr. Rand will be the speaker at
LSA Sunday evening, followed by
Reverend Norstad's Monday chapel
talk. Monday evening Dr. Rand
will appear again and also in
Tuesday's chapel service. Reverend
Norstad will speak at the services
Tuesday evening. Dr. Rand will
conduct Wednesday's chapel ex-ercise
and the closing meeting will
be Wednesday evening.
Following the LSA \ program
Sunday evening, the religion board
and the faculty Religious Emph-ais
committee have been invited
to meet with the guest speakers
at the home of Dr. Stanley Olson
to discuss the problems of religious
emphasis on the campus.
Monday evening all students pre-paring
for the ministry will gather
at the home of President L. M.
Stavig to discuss the role of the
pre-sem student on the college
campus.
Tuesday evening all Augustana
students and faculty members are
invited to an informal general cof-fee
hour at the Fireside lounge.
Those who do not have the oppor-tunity
to meet the visiting speak-ers
at a previous session are ex-pecially
urged to come to this
gathering.
Both speakers will be available
around the campus for individual
counseling and private conversa-tion.
Dr. Rand is president of Waldorf
college in Forest City, Iowa, and
was formerly a professor of Chris-tianity
at Concordia college, Moor-head,
Minnesota. He studied at
Concordia college, Luther Theolog-ical
seminary, the University of
Chicago, and Union Theological
seminary. He served as a parish
pastor before going into the field
of higher education.
Rev. Norstad is the direCtor of
the Chaplaincy Service of the Lu-theran
Welfare Society of Minne-sota.
He served as an instructor
of counseling and guidance at
three Lutheran seminaries in the
Twin Cities. He graduated from
St. Olaf college and Luther Theo-logical
seminary and in 1950 re-ceived'
an STM degree (Master
of Sacred Theology) from Andover
Newton Theological institution in
Boston, Massachusetts.
Chi Epsilon Edits
Literary Magazine
Venture, student literary maga-zine,
will again go to press this
year. The student council approved
the sponsorship of the magazine
by Chi 'Epsilon at the last council
meeting.
Delores Wermblam. and Oretta
Bender, both " members of Chi
Epsilon, are co-editors of the book.
Venture was first printed by
Richard Struck, now professor of
journalism at the University of
Oklahoma.
Professor Herbert Krause, ad-viser
of Venture, stated that the
purpose of the book is to en-courage
creative and artistic ex-pressions
from the Students.
All students interested in hav-ing
their work printed in Venture
are encouraged to present articles
to the editors. Any fiction, verse,
or essay work is suggested. The
publication date will be announced
later.
Campus Station KAUR Plans Programs
Warren Sarteberg and Jim Wylie, Director of KAUR, are discuss-ing
changes in a script before it is broadcast.
Societies Have Meetings, Parties
To Introduce Groups to Freshmen

November 7, 1952
Augustana College, SIOUX FALLS, S. D
VOL. XXXIV — NO. 8
AUGUSTANA MIRROR
Religious Emphasis. Days Begin Monday;
Rand, Norstad To Conduct Daily Services
Mothers of Augie Co-eds to Visit
College Campus November 8 - 10
"Mq.ther is a freshman" could be the theme for this weekend when
the mothers of Augie co-eds are three day guests on the campus.
Tomorrow, November 8, to Monday, November 10, will be filled
with mother and daughter events. This weekend affair is under the
sponsorship of the Chi Epsilon society, the newly-organized women's
honorary society.
First on the agenda. is the ban-quet
for tomorrow night at 6 p.m.
in the science lounge. The banquet
theme and decorations will be
centered on Thanksgiving. Kirs-tine
Stjernholm will be mistress
of ceremonies. The dinner pro-gram
will include various intro-ductions,
recognitions and group
songs.
After the banquet dinner, which
is to be served by the Cottage,
will be a program in the Little
Theater. Mrs. L. M. Stavig will
speak and show movie slides on
her rummer trip to Hanover, Ger-many.
Piano selections • will be
played by MarJean Johnson.
Irene Brandenburg is in charge
of the arrangements for the ban;
quet. On the decoration committee
are Marjorie Swanson and Ardis
Eide. Marlene Fodness and Carol
Refsell comprise the committee
for making the banquet programs.
The mothers and daughters will
attend church services together
Sunday morning. In the afternoon
everyone is invited to the Adelphic
silver anniversary tea held in the
lounge of Tuve 'hall from 3 to 5.
In the evening, the Augie girls
and their mothers will attend the
LSA program which will open , the
religious emphasis program. Pro-fessor
Sidney Rand, president of
Waldolf college, is to be the LSA
speaker.
Monday the mothers will get a
taste of campus life by attending
classes and college activities. The
agenda will also comprise chapel,
shopping and leisure moments for
the -.mothers and daughters. The
special speaker for the morning
chapel program will be Frederic
Norstad.
In the evening the guests are
invited to attend the religious em-phasis
program at the Augustana
auditorium with Professor Rand
as speaker. Following this the
women will have a coffe hour.
Monday evening devotions will
conclude t he mother-daughter
weekend.
LSA at Augustana
Prepares for Nov,V
Region Meeting
Reverend Emil E. Erpestad, pro-fessor
of Christianity, is the Bible
Study leader for the North Central
Region LSA conference it was an-nounced
last week.
Other speakers invited to ad-dress
the annual meet, this year
being held at Augustana, are Dr.
Joseph Knutson, president of
Concordia college, and Dr. Howard
Hong, professor of philosophy at
St. Olaf college.
Augpsta.na plays host to the
LSA regional next weekend, No-vember
21-23, according to Dave
Kverness, Regional vice president
and Marlow Engberg, local LSA
president who are in charge of
local preparation.
Bible study leaders and dele-gates
to represent the Augustana.
LSA will be selected this week.
All students and faculty members
are invited to attend as many of
the sessions as possible. Students
who register for the whale con-vention
will be excused from
classes to attend the meetings. .
LDR Holds Supper
At Pearson Home
Miss Arna Njaa, executive di-rector
of the National LDR spoke
on her trip to Europe at the LDR
supper meeting in the Walter
Pearson home, October 30.
Slides of the European countries
she visited last summer highlight-ed
her talk.
Leading devotions was Roe Nell
Jacobson. Elaine Larson sang and
was accompanied by JoAnn Wy-man.
The serving committee included
Delores Anderson, Arvilla Clem-metson,
Beverly Gross and Bev-erly
Tuntland.
Every Augie should tune in at 7
p.m. next Monday to KAUR, 620 on
the radio dial to hear the first
broadcast of the year of Augie's
own radio station.
Awaiting the arrival of a new
crystal delayed the opening of the
broadcasting station until now.
The frequency has been changed
from 690 to 620 with the install-ation
of the new equipment.
Jim Wylie, station manager, em-phasized
the need for students who
are interested in radio work. It
is an opportunity for many to get
valuable, behind the scenes exper-ience
in this field. "This field is
wide open to everyone and we are
hoping to see many who are inter-ested,
in there pitching," stated
Wylie.
KAUR is on a pending member-ship
list for the Inter Collegiate
Broadcasting system. The IBS
sends programs of interest to be
used by their member stations.
The main emphasis this year is
on coverage of campus news and
a public service to students. Na-tional
news will not be featured
until KAUR acquires its own tele-type
machine.
Programing will be from 7 p.m.
to 11 p.m., the programs varying
according to days with a few ex-cerptions.
There will be two half
hour disc shows each evening and
a special chow of interest to chil-dren,
featuring girls reading kid-dies'
stories.
A favorite from last year,
Moments with the Masters, a full
hour program, will be presented
late in the evening to make it
possible for more students to hear
it. 'The KAUR Bulletin Board will
appear twice on the evening sched-ule,
announcing school events.
Live broadcasting, featuring
members of the student body, will
be a prominent item. Programs
will be given by the college trio,
quartette and other ensembles.
Dale Hatch will conduct sports
interviews with past and present
Augustana athletes. Who's Who
on Angie Campus will be a senior
interview show.
Two outstanding church leaders
will be on campus next week to
lead a series of programs and dis-cussions
during Religious Emph-asis
days in the personages of
Dr. Sidney A. Rand, president of
Waldorf college and Reverend
Frederic M. Norstad, Director of
the Chaplaincy Service of Lutheran
Welfare.
They will alternately address the
student body at chapel programs
and special evening sessions be-ginning
with LSA Sunday evening
and continuing through Wednes-day
evening.
All other school functions have
been cancelled, faculty members
have been instructed to lighten
assignments, and many other ar-rangements
have been made so
that the students at Augustana
may obtain as much benefit as
possible from this series of im-portant
sessions which have been
prepared for them. Everyone is
urged to attend as many sessions
-as possible.
Dr. L. M. Stavig will be in
Charge of the regular chapel pro-grams
at which the speakers will
appear, and Dave Kvernes, religion
board chairman, will preside over
the evening sessions. Special music
will be provided at each program
and the evening sessions will also
feature a hymn sing led by various
student musicians including Joan
Now that Rush week is well
underway, the freshmen are in a
whirl of parties.
November 11 the Phi Rho Beta
Transcribed remotes of students
voice and instrumental recitals
will be carried on KAUR.
The record library has been
brought up to date with the pur-chase
of 200 to 250 new releases,
especially popular recordings.
Miss Clara Chilson, speech in-structor,
has auditioned six an-nouncers,
but there is still a need
for about six more. Anyone inter-ested
in these positions may con-tact
Jim Wylie. Jim spends most
of his spare time in KAUR's head-quarters
in the greenhouse on the
south side of the Administration'
building.
A schedule of the programs will
appear weekly in the MIRROR.
Dr. Sidney Rand
Rev. Frederic Norstad
Chilson, Peggy Miller and Les
Arneson. Dorothy Winclh will be
the accompanist.
will have an open party in the
Science lounge at 8:15. The Nue-roniams
will meet in the Huddle
Banquet room at 8:15 on the same
date.
"The Wheel Dial", a roller skat-ing
party sponsored by the Alpha
Sigma Chi and kappa Theta Phi
will be held November 13 at the
West Sioux rink. Busses will leave
from Tuve hall at 7:30. In the
Huddle, November 17 at 7:30' will
be "Men's Smoker" sponsored by
the Kapps's and in the Science
lounge the Alphas will meet at
7:30 the same date.
Glad Heaven will be the place
the Gladstonians open party will
meet on November 14 at 7:30.
In the Huddle Banquet room
November 12, at 7:30 the Delta
Sigma Tau will meet for their
final separate meeting. The joint
meeting of the Athenians and Dells
will be in the Science lounge at
7:30 on November 19. Also, the
Athenians will have an open meet-ing
on NoVember 14 at the same
time and place.
Philomathians and Webeterians
joint party will be held in the
Science lounge at 8:30 on Novem-ber
18.
egin Religious
Emphasis Sunday
The LSA meeting Sunday eve-ning,
November 9, will be the kick-off
for 'Religious Emphasis Days
with Reverend Sidney Rand as
speaker.
Daryl Bjerke's team is planning
the program which will start at
6:15.
Supper will be served by Les
Arneson'►s team at 5:30.
Dr. Rand will be the speaker at
LSA Sunday evening, followed by
Reverend Norstad's Monday chapel
talk. Monday evening Dr. Rand
will appear again and also in
Tuesday's chapel service. Reverend
Norstad will speak at the services
Tuesday evening. Dr. Rand will
conduct Wednesday's chapel ex-ercise
and the closing meeting will
be Wednesday evening.
Following the LSA \ program
Sunday evening, the religion board
and the faculty Religious Emph-ais
committee have been invited
to meet with the guest speakers
at the home of Dr. Stanley Olson
to discuss the problems of religious
emphasis on the campus.
Monday evening all students pre-paring
for the ministry will gather
at the home of President L. M.
Stavig to discuss the role of the
pre-sem student on the college
campus.
Tuesday evening all Augustana
students and faculty members are
invited to an informal general cof-fee
hour at the Fireside lounge.
Those who do not have the oppor-tunity
to meet the visiting speak-ers
at a previous session are ex-pecially
urged to come to this
gathering.
Both speakers will be available
around the campus for individual
counseling and private conversa-tion.
Dr. Rand is president of Waldorf
college in Forest City, Iowa, and
was formerly a professor of Chris-tianity
at Concordia college, Moor-head,
Minnesota. He studied at
Concordia college, Luther Theolog-ical
seminary, the University of
Chicago, and Union Theological
seminary. He served as a parish
pastor before going into the field
of higher education.
Rev. Norstad is the direCtor of
the Chaplaincy Service of the Lu-theran
Welfare Society of Minne-sota.
He served as an instructor
of counseling and guidance at
three Lutheran seminaries in the
Twin Cities. He graduated from
St. Olaf college and Luther Theo-logical
seminary and in 1950 re-ceived'
an STM degree (Master
of Sacred Theology) from Andover
Newton Theological institution in
Boston, Massachusetts.
Chi Epsilon Edits
Literary Magazine
Venture, student literary maga-zine,
will again go to press this
year. The student council approved
the sponsorship of the magazine
by Chi 'Epsilon at the last council
meeting.
Delores Wermblam. and Oretta
Bender, both " members of Chi
Epsilon, are co-editors of the book.
Venture was first printed by
Richard Struck, now professor of
journalism at the University of
Oklahoma.
Professor Herbert Krause, ad-viser
of Venture, stated that the
purpose of the book is to en-courage
creative and artistic ex-pressions
from the Students.
All students interested in hav-ing
their work printed in Venture
are encouraged to present articles
to the editors. Any fiction, verse,
or essay work is suggested. The
publication date will be announced
later.
Campus Station KAUR Plans Programs
Warren Sarteberg and Jim Wylie, Director of KAUR, are discuss-ing
changes in a script before it is broadcast.
Societies Have Meetings, Parties
To Introduce Groups to Freshmen